Complete database of events related to the internal armed conflict in Peru, extracted from the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (CVR). 5,159 events documented from 1817 to 2003.
There was a second narcoterrorist attack on the Santa Lucia base, also repelled by helicopter gunships, with no deaths or captures reported. This attack occurred during the resumption of anti-drug actions in Alto Huallaga, after having been suspended for seven months.
In September 1989, a Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) base was installed in Santa Lucia as part of anti-drug operations in the Upper Huallaga. This installation was part of a confluence of obstacles that contributed to the decline of the town of Uchiza as an open drug trafficking center and the …
Hundreds of hikers attacked the Santa Lucia base, center of operations of the anti-narcotics fight, in an attempt to destroy it, but without achieving their objective, as they were repelled with gunfire from the ground and from helicopters. Unofficially it was said that dozens of subversives and drug traffickers were …
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